Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-28

and speakers are being furnished on ac-
count of change in the political outlook
favorable to the party. The cause must
be looked for in other quarters and the
Washington correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Commercial has discovered it. In a
dispatch to his paper he says
Ohio republicans can make up their minds
that if the present administration can do any
thing TO down" Governor Foraker it will BE-
done with will. The greatest modification
which Mr. Cleveland had experienced since
his inauguration was that caused Dy the ne
ces.itv Of hurriedly revoking the rebel flag
order. At every succeeding step that mort
icatiou has increased. The confession of
ignorance, both Of constitution and law, was
bad enough, but the publication of the letter
of the Att0rney-General on the Lee relics,
showing that in reply t. a writ N inquiry
from the President, only six weeks before the
flag order was issued, Mr. Garland had adj
vised him that Congress alone could dispose
of public properly, put Mr.. Cleveland in a
much more embarrassing position. Then
followed, as one of the related misfortunes,
the hasty, ill-adv:sed and damaging contro
versy with the Grand ARMY of the Republic.
There are stories of such pent-up wrath
against Governor Foraker ready to vent them
selves on the least pretext. 1t is notorious
here that Ohio democrats expect active help
from the Administration against Ohio repub
licans-a help prompted not alone by the or
binary interest in party victory, but mainly by
the hate which Governor Forakers course on
the flag order and the notifying Incidents
and complications which followed it.
To the statement that money will be raised
from Office holders for the Ohio campaign the
reply of those who affect to disbeleve it 10
that the Civil Service law forbids it. Let such
doubters answer whether there il any provi-
sion of that law, or the Presidents orders
based upon it, that has not been violated
time and again with impunity. True, in many
instances, the violation has been accomplished
through a qubble. And by means of that
bubble, known as voluntary contrii utions
for political purposes" all the funds needed
for the Ohio campaign can be readily collected
the moment it becomes privately known that
the President is personally and deeply inter-
ested in Governor Foraker's defeat"
That President Cleveland should take
hand in the Ohio contest is not at all sur
prising, for in Foraker he has found con-
slant thorn in the side. But whether
President Cleveland has measured his
antagonist seems to be doubtful; if he
should not succeed in his purpose to de-
feat him his own chances in that State
would be seriously impaired. 1t is how.
ever little amusing to see President en-
gagged in State campaign because of the
hatred he bears the nominee of the OPP
posing political party, and carry the mat
ter so far that in raising funds he breaks
his own pious mandates by the sneak
around manner of making collections,
used. Yet all things are to be expected
during this administration and if the Ohio
democracy should get hard pushed we
should not be surprised to see President
Cleveland stumping the State.